Awesome!

I completely agree with the comments on the ending - it is probably the best film ending I have ever seen (and Rhythm of the Night is one of my favourite songs because I saw it here). The only way I can think of rationalising it is that we love films not because of their subject matter or actors or tension or whatever, we love them because of their effect on us. Personally, the movies which tear my head off are those which surprise me because they are so effective in a way I would never have imagined. Having Denis Lavant dance crazily alone around a nightclub in the middle of nowhere to a song that everyone knows is so novel that it's shocking. Revolutionow is right that it's a form of emotional release after all the watching, repetition, barren, wide landscape shots, and the whole feeling during the movie that the men are there pointlessly and don't know why or what will come next. His intense emotion and the fact that the dancefloor is empty brings together emotion and loneliness - sometimes if you give in to primal urges you end up completely alone (as opposed to civilisation, language etc where you can communicate with others). So that's a slightly crap way of explaining it, the other thing I get when watching the ending is 'wow this is so completely weird and yet so awesomely compelling and I don't know why' - the not knowing why exactly this scene fascinates me so much only adds to its fascination.